WebAssembly and wasmCloud

Kevin Hoffman (@KevinHoffman, CTO at @Cosmonic_com, wasmCloud creator) talks about WebAssembly and wasmCloud, and how this new development paradigm can simplify application development.

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SHOW NOTES:

• Cosmonic (homepage)
• Webassembly (homepage)
• wasmCloud (homepage)
• Getting started with wasmCloud
• The Webassembly stack (vs. containers, VMs)
• Building a Containerless Future with WebAssembly
• From Napkin to the Cloud - A Webassembly Journey
• Programming Webassembly with Rust (Kevin Hoffman, new book)

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s start by talking a little bit about your background, and what led you to create wasmCloud. 

Topic 2 - Let’s begin by talking about Webassembly. What is it (a language, a framework??), and what problems does it solve for developers?

Topic 3 - Let’s talk about wasmCloud. Once you’ve built something leveraging Webassembly, how does it interact with wasmCloud?

Topic 4 - Everything in application development tends to be a progression from something prior. How did Webassembly evolve? Docker’s Solomon Hykes said that if wasm+wasi existed 7yrs ago, he never would have created Docker. 

Topic 5 - Yesterday was WASM Day at Cloud Native Con. What were some of the highlights and focus areas?

Topic 6 - What are some of the early uses and usage patterns of Webassembly?

Topic 7 - What are some of the ways to get started with Webassembly and wasmCloud?

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